 Man these old Berkeley paper bags. There is not another Paperback or hardcover or anything that smells like they do Hello everybody, E here welcome back to another retro book review today We're talking about night chills by Dean Koontz, which is the second book that I read In one of me and my friend D. Lee first started our Dean Koontz rereadathon Actually, I think a lot of them were first reads for her, but they're all rereads for me I've read everything up until the Jane Hawks series. Actually, I didn't finish actually Bell either, but uh Night chills is one of those middling Koontz books that it was it's a fun ride If you like a certain type of story It's not something that I ever suggest rereading because it certainly doesn't hold up I do recall that I misremembered the second half of the book I know the book is about subliminal messaging And I thought for some odd reason that it went a certain way and I'll discuss that in the spoiler section After the outro, I thought it went in a certain direction and it didn't I remember that very clearly about the read-through Another thing is I mentioned in my review. I always go back and I reread my reviews to see what sparks, you know memories And one of the things that I mentioned, which I thought it was a rather astute observation Which is Stephen King not Stephen King. Sorry Dean Koontz for Indian Slips some people say Dean Koontz is kind of like a stand-up comedian They have the same shtick that they'll have one routine that they go from city to city With slight variations on that theme. Well most stand-up comedians. Some of them just go off top of their head but With and then you know every single city they'll have new audiences so they can do the same jokes over and over again And it will feel new That's what I feel Dean Koontz has been doing since roughly about 1990 he's been telling the same jokes over and over again and newer fans and newer readers to Dean Koontz is like Yeah, this is a great joke ha ha ha very very funny and I can understand that That's why I don't get too upset when people like well his new books are good Well, I understand but they're also just rehashes of this old stuff This one especially where there's a there's a town be set by some government evil There's a bunch of books like that in this in the Dean Koontz universe and we'll get to them eventually as we go on But this one like I said, it's very middle middle of the road In fact, I would say that it's it's more Richard layman than it is a Dean Koontz book It's very rapey. There's a buttload of rape in the book very uncomfortable scenes very detailed rape scenes So that puts you off definitely stay away from this one Koontz has completely abandoned that That topic later in his career He might allude to it But he doesn't go into the kind of detail that he goes into here Another aspect of this book is again. It's another government conspiracy kind of deal Governments bad Dean Koontz. I don't know Dean Koontz himself as a conspiracy theorist But if if you've been reading his stuff for long enough, he does certainly feel like a conspiracy nut I know he's He I know I don't know that he's conservative I do know that he He believes that everybody should be prepared everybody should own a gun that kind of thing. He's of that mindset now the The problems with this book are I think of the pacing I don't think that I don't this is one of the few Koontz books that I feel has a problem with pacing it takes So long for the book to get going over 200 pages and in those first 200 pages You got the rapiness and if that like I said if that kind of thing isn't your cup of tea It's not my cup of tea If that's not your kind of cup, you know, not your thing You're not gonna enjoy this there at the beginning and pretty much everything else. I have to say about the book is It is a spoiler so I'm trying to think of anything else I might have I don't think there is anything else except for the fact that There's that this has pretty much the same issue as every other King Koontz book as well in that it has a terrific premise, but it has forgettable characters and This one takes too long getting going, but I think that's all I mean I have to say about this one if you want to you can read my thoughts in my review on Goodreads I'll link to that down in the doobly-doo, but until next time. I have been E you've been you this has been another retro book review I'll talk to you guys later. Bye. Bye Let's see if I can get through this without the doggo's barking. I can yeah, I heard him barking through the through the in through the outro That's my doggo ash Anywho, so yeah Dean Koontz the spoilers like the rape scene in the kitchen It didn't bother the hell out of me and I suppose that's a good thing It's supposed to bother me but it bothered me on a level that was like this is unneeded We don't have to go into all that. I remember that specifically I remember the the the second half of the book Being nothing like I expected to be the first time I read this for some odd reason I remember, you know, the the subliminal messages in the water whatever the hell happens I remember that spoilers spoilers By the way spoilers after the outro folks if you're new to the channel I Remember I seem to remember that at the after about 200 pages into the book The whole town goes batshit crazy and they just start murdering everybody and only is a few people Survive it kind of deal almost like Fanta well fans was everybody's well. I don't want to spoil that one But anyways, that's that's how I remember it, you know, and it's not how it went and when I was saying There's several books like this. You have phantoms. You have midnight I know there's others too But those are the three that come to mind night chills phantoms and midnight are all about the same about the small town kind of shenanigans But and they all have to deal with the government in some kind of way I believe midnight maybe not but I believe it has to do with the government, but I mean seven times out of ten It's government, you know for Dean Coons Let's see here this There's another I think the whole thing just kind of fizzled out I remember reading that in my review the ending kind of fizzles out I don't remember much of it at all. Maybe there's a scene where the Agents are chasing the hero up a Log shoot or some shit like that like a conveyor belt. I don't remember. That's what I seem to remember here Once again, it's a Dean Coons book So you have no memorable characters the plot is it kind of runs together with everything It's definitely a three-star book If you don't mind the rapiness definitely check it out But that's pretty much all I got to say at least it's not a negative review this time So I can keep all the guy. What are you doing damn countries are next coming on Christ I can keep all that shit out of the comments at least